Foreign teachers and students from 8 countries, including the United States and 
New Zealand, came to the Taizhou Embroidery Life Art Museum recently, embarking 
on a journey of experiencing Taizhou embroidery culture, according to Taizhou 
Embroidery Museum.

Malik, a foreign teacher from Pakistan, was much impressed. "I saw the 
production process of silk before, and this time I see how silk becomes a work 
of art in Taizhou. It is so beautiful! These works really impress me. What's 
more, they are both artistic and practical. I really like them!" Malik said.

The Taizhou Embroidery Life Arts Museum was launched by Lin Xia, the 
third-generation inheritor of Taizhou embroidery. The Museum is open to the 
public for free and serves to showcase the development of Taizhou embroidery 
and promote Taizhou folk embroidery culture. As a master of Chinese arts and 
crafts, Lin combines traditional embroidery skills with modern fashion to form 
a new genre with unique regional embroidery characteristics of Taizhou. She 
founded her own cultural brand, and built a cultural and creative industrial 
chain with traditional embroidery skills as the mainstay.

Taizhou, located in the southeast coast of China, Zhejiang Province, has a long 
history of embroidery culture among its rich and unique cultural deposits. 
Judging by the unearthed fragments of silk fabric from the ancient times, 
Taizhou embroidery has a history of more than 1,000 years. During the late Qing 
Dynasty, the ancient Taizhou embroidery was perfectly combined with foreign 
carving embroidery, forming the modern Taizhou embroidery with regional 
characteristics.

As a folk art with both Western aesthetics and Chinese traditional skills, 
modern Taizhou embroidery has developed into one of the most distinctive 
regional embroidery types with nearly 300 ways of stitches in China after three 
generations of inheritance, and has been listed in the intangible cultural 
heritage list of Zhejiang Province and become the signature of Jiaojiang 
District intangible cultural heritage.

Under the guidance of the intangible culture heritage departments in Taizhou 
City and Jiaojiang District, local enterprises have explored and sorted out the 
historical evolution, regional culture, social value and inheritance pedigree 
of Taizhou embroidery. The cultural, technical and artistic elements of Taizhou 
embroidery are extracted and transformed through creative design. The local 
firms have taken the unique local culture as inheritance assets and the 
intangible heritage brand of embroidery as carrier to integrate intangible 
skills into modern life. Taizhou embroidery is now on a road to the perfection 
of craftsmanship, perception and practicality.

Source: Taizhou Embroidery Museum, Zhejiang Province

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